Tag: driving
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Mantis Burn Racing – TopDown Racing Is Back!
I had the pleasure of talking with the guys behind Mantis Burn Racing at EGX 2016 and was thoroughly impressed with the thought and design behind this new top-down racing game from VooFoo Studios. Take your minds back to Micro Machines; this was a good fun multiplayer that came out in the early 90’s and…
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Introducing the Nexar Dash Cam Smartphone App
When it comes to exciting the senses, dash cams are not usually the first things that spring to mind. Becoming popular over the last few years their number has grown, and today, there are a plethora of designs, brands and prices to choose from. The raw footage from dashcams alone has spawned a complete subset…
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Goluk T1 Dash Cam Controlled by Smartphone
The need for Dash Cams is rising as more and more insurance companies offer discounts if you have one. Having one of these in your car could be the difference between proving innocence, or, spending a fortune on premiums for a crash you had no fault in. There are many available on the market today…
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The Dashcam – What’s it all about?
I doubt these devices need much introduction, we have all seen at least one video recorded via dashcam by now, and probably involving Russians. The Dashcam first became popular in Russia because insurance fraud is a widespread problem there. So, to combat this, drivers installed cameras to show their side of the story whilst others…
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Tesla CEO Teases Unmanned Car Retrieval
Elon Musk has promised his Tesla vehicles will soon be able to do something no car has ever done before – namely drive across a continent, unmanned, so you can retrieve your car after a long distance flight across the United States. The entrepreneur’s Tesla vehicle line is already gearing up for automatic parking, but…
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Dehydrated Driving As Risky As Being Drunk
It might sound odd but according to a new study being thirsty might just have an effect on your performance behind the wheel. More to the point, a lack of hydration can impair your brain, making you much more dangerous on the road, even as dangerous as if you had been drinking alcohol, the study…
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Self Driving Cars May Cause Motion Sickness
There’s a lot of research into the new self driving car phenomenon coming from universities and manufacturers as the technology improves. For example, a new research project out of the University of Michigan Transport Research Institute, or UMTRI, who have looked into the problem of car sickness for the vehicles. We get car sickness, or…
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Virgin Already Working On Electric Cars
Sir Richard Branson is a cool customer. If anything’s going on in the tech game, you can bet he knows about it. Virgin’s charismatic head has already made his mark in space travel, with the new Virgin galactic service that ferries passengers into space, but now it looks like the company is coming down to…
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Google Initiates Self Driving Car Production
The first rumblings of Google’s foray into self driving vehicles came back in 2013, when the company was spotted doing a few tests on some slightly aged Toyotas, mucking about with sensors and other gadgets and generally making a bit of fun out of it. It wasn’t until the middle part of last year that…
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NASA Joins Nissan For New Self Driving cars
Nissan, the famous car maker, has made friends with NASA, the famous space agency, in order to manufacture and design special vehicles used for driving around on other planets. The two have partnered up as part of a project to bring autonomous self driving cars to the roads of Earth as well as the barren…